[Freeciv-Dev] Re: A call out to all you documenters out there

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 06:11:23PM -0400, Daniel L Speyer wrote:
> All the images in the documentation are from engels.  I'm not really sure
> what to replace it with, so I've uploaded a tarball of terrain shots for
> lexxy, cevo, isotrident and rhires.  Each image shows a main continent
> with every terrain and special, plus a smaller one to the north
> demonstrating rivers and three islands to show context-dependant terrains
> in more detail.
> 
> The documentation also gives images of each unit.  For anyone interested
> in tackling that, you may find this script useful
> 
> cat units.spec  |
>  grep [0-6], |
>  grep -v \; |
>  tr '",' "  " |
>  sed s/u\\.//g |
>  awk '{print "convert -crop 64x48+" $2*65+1 "+" $1*49+1 " units.xpm " $3 
> ".png"}' |
>  bash
> 
> Run it any tileset directory (actually any directory with matching
> units.spec and units.xpm files) and it will produce pngs for each unit, by
> name.  It assumes 64x48 with borderwidth 1 (true for all isometric sets
> except microisotrident), but you can change that by replacing the values
> in the awk line.

thanks. I would say that isotrident would be best since that's what
newbies will encounter first.

for general reference for those who plan on contributing, (many people I
hope), please tar up images you wish to contribute in a directory img/
and set image anchors to that directory in your html.

-mike